The most recent posts appear at the top of the list.

• Pub Day!
• Western volume coming soon
• My favorite spectrogram phone apps
• Eastern vs. Western Purple Martins
• Unfamiliarity: A Field Mark
• Book launch imminent!
• Black and Pigeon Guillemots
• Ever heard of Pine Flycatcher?
• The Swifts of Mexiquillo
• Mexico’s Mystery Owl
• Do Bushtits Sing?
• The Toughest Birds to Record in North America
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• More Than Just a Mudsucker
• How to Identify a Timberline Sparrow
• Common vs. Chihuahuan Ravens
• Florida’s Online Sound Archive
• Describing Variation in Bird Sounds
• A Bicknell’s Thrush Critique
• The Seven Basic Tone Qualities
• Changes in Speed and Pitch, and Multi-noted Series
• The Four Basic Song Patterns
• The Five Basic Pitch Patterns
• Long Calls of Gulls
• Common and Hoary Redpolls
• The Warbler Guide
• Empid Mystery Solved!
• Cornell’s Master Set
• “Russet-backed” vs. “Olive-backed” Swainson’s Thrushes
• More on the Mystery Empid Call
• Greater vs. Lesser Yellowlegs
• The “Tink” Call
• Learning Laplands
• The Visual Power of GIFs
• What’s Weird About Rusty Blackbirds
• Splitting the Golden-fronted Woodpecker
• North by Northwest
• Announcing the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds
• A Trip to the Audiologist
• The Dawn Song of Brown Creeper
• Video Library: Large Gulls
• What Gulls Say
• The Left-handed Blackbird
• The “Two-part Calls” of Empidonax
• American Parakeets: Changing Tunes?
• Rufous Antpitta Feature
• King and Clapper Rails
• The “Meaningless” Calls of Red-winged Blackbirds
• How Fast Is That Vireo Singing?
• Florida, Part 2: Keys to Piney Woods
• Florida, Part 1: Recording the Exotic
• A Veery’s Two Voices
• A Canyon Wren Mystery
• Identifying Eastern and Western Warbling Vireos
• A Dove Detective Story
• My Sounds on the Radio
• Black Swift Wintering Grounds Discovered
• Identifying Black-capped Gnatcatchers
• Eastern and Western Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
• The Gargling Chickadees
• Larkwire: A Review
• Fox Sparrow, Part 2: Alarm & Contact Calls
• Fox Sparrow, Part 1: Flight Calls
• The Beauty of Spectrograms
• Recyclers
• The Next Junco
• Hummingbirds by Ear
• More Than Just Snap, Crackle, and Pop
• Rufous-collared Origins
• Sage Sparrow Subspecies
• Polling all Blackpolls
• The “Western” Flycatcher Problem
• Describing What You Hear
• Subsong vs. Whisper Song
• An Easter (n?) Phoebe
• A Robin’s Many Songs
• “Least” Bell’s Vireo
• A Pygmy-Owl Challenge
• How Many Tuftedcheeks?
• To Stereotype or Not
• Do Evening Grosbeaks Sing?
• Splitting Mountain Chickadee
• Trumpeter and Tundra Swans
• The Vowels of Birds
• George the Sparrow
• Do Violet-green Swallows Sing?
• I Saw a Vampire!
• Curve-billed Thrasher Identification
• Gear Recommendations
• Band-winged Nightjar Feature
• Got Grosbeaks?
• Humming Their Own Tune
• Automatic Song Recognition Online
• What’s That Screeching?
• The Coolest Bird
• Spectrograms on the iPhone
• The Genus Formerly Known as Aimophila
• Rattles, Claps, & Burp-clicks
• The Changes Are In
• Swift Travels
• The Microphone You Already Own
• Wings of Thunder
• A Sonoran Sampler
• Off to the Tropics!
• Boat-billed Flycatcher Feature
• They Taste Like Turpentine
• Hearing Loss and Bird Sounds
• A “Skiew!” in the Dark
• Review: Songs of the Warblers
• Whip Split!
• Song of Smudgy
• Back on the Air!
• Two New Warbler Websites
• Eastern & Western Marsh Wrens
• New Crossbill Compendium
• Book Review: A Sound Like Water Dripping
• AOU Checklist News!
• Editing Sounds in Adobe Audition
• Evening Grosbeak Call Types
• Editing Sounds in Raven Lite
• How to Manage Your Recordings
• Happy Merganser Day!
• Recordist Profile: Andrew Spencer
• SongFinder Review
• Otherwise Engaged
• Brief Blog Hiatus
• The Plunge
• Splitting Scoters
• The Mysterious American Tree Sparrow
• Pacific Wren’s a Done Deal
• Recordist Profile: Bob Zilly
• What We Don’t Know About Bird Sounds
• Murder Most Foul
• On Spectrogram Settings
• How I Listen
• A Brief History of Spectrograms
• You Misidentified It Wrong
• A Hybrid Hummingbird?
• Learn to Record Birds
• White-breasted Nuthatch, Part Three
• White-breasted Nuthatch, Part Two
• White-breasted Nuthatch, Part One
• A Good Quiz
• How to Read Spectrograms: Polyphony
• A Hybrid Nighthawk?
• The Alternate Song of Prothonotary Warbler
• How to Read Spectrograms: Nasality
• That’s No Starling
• Pacific Wren, Part Two
• Pacific Wren, Part One
• Recordist Profile: Tayler Brooks
• Let’s Get Exotic
• Speaking of Quizzes
• The Crossbill Quiz: Answers
• The Crossbill Quiz
• Back from Prewitt, Off to Boise
• The Coolest Bird Sound
• Mountain Quail after all?
• New Listserv Alert
• Recordist Profile: Paul Hurtado
• The Fall Challenge
• Another Chipmunk Mystery
• Gray Hawk, continued
• Splitting the Gray Hawk
• How to Read Spectrograms: Trills and Beats
• Pygmy-Owl vs. Chipmunk
• Macaulay’s Red Crossbill Types
• Pygmy-Owl Confusion
• A Brown-headed Stepchild
• How to Read Spectrograms: Noise
• Sounds of Extinct Birds
• How to Read Spectrograms: Musicality
• How to Read Spectrograms: Pitch & Inflection
• Mimicry in Cardueline finches
• Beware the Bendire’s
• Meadowlark “bzerts”: identifiable?
• We are not alone!
• “Lilian’s” Meadowlark songs
• Getting started with crossbills